Ellipsis is an AD—WO project, designed, planted, and constructed as a part of Exhibit Columbus 2025. 

“Ellipsis occupies the Irwin Block, a site where a 130-year-old building was destroyed by fire in December 2022. In response to these multiple timescales of loss, Ellipsis references Indigenous land remediation techniques, particularly cultural burnings, that mythologize fire as medicine, an agent of loss and renewal enacted to maintain abundant ecosystems and to steward plant and animal life.”

Photos by Hadley Fruits/Landmarks Columbus Foundation.
Construction by Taylor Bros. Construction.
Native Prairie Plantings by Sanctuary Native Landscapes.
Special thank you to all the incredible volunteers and community members in Columbus, IN.

Press:
The Architect’s Newspaper
AIA New York
Dezeen
Metropolis
The Republic Newspaper